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This page lists works about women changing the world ... women revolutionaries! OK, I don't include the standard saving-the-world-against-the-forces-of-great-evil motif from fantasy. We're talking changes in society, not just ridding the world of dark shadows and other semi-racist mythography. If they're outside agitators, grassroots organizers, or in other subversive ways, fomenting revolution and causing trouble, then you'll find 'em here! (You'll find more warrior women on the warrior women bibliography.)
{{EFCindex}}This page lists works about women changing the world (in SF) ... women revolutionaries! OK, I don't include the standard saving-the-world-against-the-forces-of-great-evil motif from fantasy. We're talking changes in society, not just ridding the world of dark shadows and other semi-racist mythography. If they're outside agitators, grassroots organizers, or in other subversive ways, fomenting revolution and causing trouble (in SF), then you'll find 'em here! (You'll find more warrior women on the warrior women bibliography.)


* [[Zainab Amadahy]]'s ''[[The Moons of Palmares]]''
Let me repeat: This is a list of female revolutionaries ... '''''in SF'''''. 
* [[Gertrude Atherton]]'s ''[[The White Morning]]'' (1918) (German women plan a revolution)


* [[Lizzie Borden]]'s ''[[Born in Flames]]'' (1982 film)
==Female revolutionaries==
* [[Octavia Butler]]'s ''[[Parable of the Sower]]''
* [[Susan Voight]] (in ''[[Freedom and Necessity]]'' by [[Emma Bull]] and [[Steven Brust]])
* [[Elphaba]] in ''[[Wicked (novel)|Wicked]]''
 
==Additional works including female revolutionaries==
* [[Zainab Amadahy]]. ''[[The Moons of Palmares]]''
* [[Gertrude Atherton]]. ''[[The White Morning]]'' (1918) (German women plan a revolution)
 
* [[Lizzie Borden]]. ''[[Born in Flames]]'' (1982 film)
* [[Octavia Butler]]. ''[[Parable of the Sower]]''


* [[Jayge Carr]]. ''[[Leviathan's Deep]]'' (1979) (The book is not about revolution, although the protagonist ultimately becomes a revolutionary.)
* [[Jayge Carr]]. ''[[Leviathan's Deep]]'' (1979) (The book is not about revolution, although the protagonist ultimately becomes a revolutionary.)
* [[Flynn Connolly]]'s ''[[The Rising of the Moon]]''
* [[Flynn Connolly]]. ''[[The Rising of the Moon]]''


* [[Candas Jane Dorsey]]. ''[[Black Wine]]''
* [[Candas Jane Dorsey]]. ''[[Black Wine]]''


* [[Myrna Elana]]'s "[[Hourglass City]]"
* [[Myrna Elana]]. "[[Hourglass City]]"


* [[Zoë Fairbairns]]' [[Benefits (novel)|Benefits]]
* [[Zoë Fairbairns]]. ''[[Benefits]]''
* [[Jane Fletcher]]. ''[[The World Celaeno Chose]]'' (1999, Dimsdale Press, London)
* [[Jane Fletcher]]. ''[[The World Celaeno Chose]]'' (1999, Dimsdale Press, London)


* [[Elizabeth Hand]]. ''[[Waking the Moon]]''. (Illuminati-like secret society of mostly women has been plotting for centuries to resurrect the goddess ....)
* [[Elizabeth Hand]]. ''[[Waking the Moon]]''. ([[Tiptree Award|The James Tiptree Jr. Award]] winning illuminati-like secret society of mostly women has been plotting for centuries to resurrect the goddess ....)


* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s story of Odo (what was its name?)
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s story of [[Odo]], "[[The Day Before the Revolution]]"


* [[Gwen M'Clatchey]]. "Short Skirts and Patriarchs" in Dangerous Women edited by S. G. Johnson (lesbian terrorists)
* [[Gwen M'Clatchey]]. "Short Skirts and Patriarchs" in Dangerous Women edited by [[S. G. Johnson]] (lesbian terrorists)
* Sam Merwin. ''[[Sex War]]'' (1950s, I think) - A conspiracy of women to overturn the world, but in this novel the male protagonist (a world-class genius who is desired by all the sexy women, of course) triumphs and saves the world - maybe. (The notion of a secret society of women was handled much more interestingly by Fritz Lieber in Conjure Wife and Elizabeth Hand in Waking the Moon.)
* Sam Merwin. ''[[Sex War]]'' (1950s, I think) - A conspiracy of women to overturn the world, but in this novel the male protagonist (a world-class genius who is desired by all the sexy women, of course) triumphs and saves the world - maybe. (The notion of a secret society of women was handled much more interestingly by Fritz Lieber in Conjure Wife and Elizabeth Hand in Waking the Moon.)
* [[Pat Murphy]]'s ''[[The City, Not Long After]]''
* [[Pat Murphy]]. ''[[The City, Not Long After]]'' - Artists in San Francisco rebel against the post-apocalyptic military government in Sacramento.


* [[Cris Newport]]. ''[[The White Bones of Truth]]'' (Pride Pubctns, 1994)
* [[Cris Newport]]. ''[[The White Bones of Truth]]'' (Pride Pubctns, 1994)
* [[Alice Nunn]]. [[Gillie Seaton]] in ''[[Illicit Passage]]''


* [[Steve Perry]]. ''[[Matadora]]'' (1986)
* [[Steve Perry]]. ''[[Matadora]]'' (1986)
* [[Marge Piercy]]'s ''[[Dance the Eagle to Sleep]]''
* [[Marge Piercy]]. ''[[Dance the Eagle to Sleep]]'' (not SF)


* [[Starhawk]]'s ''[[The Fifth Sacred Thing]]''
* [[Starhawk]]'s ''[[The Fifth Sacred Thing]]''


==Spoiler revolutionaries==
==Spoiler revolutionaries==
* [[Xena: Warrior Princess]], episode "[[The Black Wolf (Xena)|The Black Wolf]]" (1x--)
* [[Xena: Warrior Princess]], episode "[[The Black Wolf (Xena)|The Black Wolf]]" (1x--); see also Xena leading a horde of demons in revolution against the angels of heaven
 
==See also==
* [[List of female political leaders in SF]]
* [[List of female labor organizers in SF]]
* [[List of female activists in SF]]


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This page lists works about women changing the world (in SF) ... women revolutionaries! OK, I don't include the standard saving-the-world-against-the-forces-of-great-evil motif from fantasy. We're talking changes in society, not just ridding the world of dark shadows and other semi-racist mythography. If they're outside agitators, grassroots organizers, or in other subversive ways, fomenting revolution and causing trouble (in SF), then you'll find 'em here! (You'll find more warrior women on the warrior women bibliography.)

Let me repeat: This is a list of female revolutionaries ... in SF.

Female revolutionaries

Additional works including female revolutionaries

  • Gwen M'Clatchey. "Short Skirts and Patriarchs" in Dangerous Women edited by S. G. Johnson (lesbian terrorists)
  • Sam Merwin. Sex War (1950s, I think) - A conspiracy of women to overturn the world, but in this novel the male protagonist (a world-class genius who is desired by all the sexy women, of course) triumphs and saves the world - maybe. (The notion of a secret society of women was handled much more interestingly by Fritz Lieber in Conjure Wife and Elizabeth Hand in Waking the Moon.)
  • Pat Murphy. The City, Not Long After - Artists in San Francisco rebel against the post-apocalyptic military government in Sacramento.

Spoiler revolutionaries

See also


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